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- What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like…
- Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.
- The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious.…
- Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.
- Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.
- The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own.
- Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.
- The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
- Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is…
- The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like…
- We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.
- Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear. Integral awareness is…
- A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
- We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We…
- The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things. All things have…
- The great Tao flows everywhere. All things are born from it, yet it doesn't create them. It pours itself into its work, yet it makes…
- Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling,…
- Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get…
- A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He…
- Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius